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Samuel Ashman

Ashman, Samuel, Lance Corporal, 11889, 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
Disembarked for service 29th July 1915
Previously served with 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal
Born Fenton Park, Staffordshire
Enlisted Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Resided Langwith, Derbyshire
Killed in action 24th September 1918 aged 28
Husband of Priscilla Barlow (formerly Ashman), of 104, Scott St., Langwith, Mansfield.
Buried in Trefcon British Cemetery, Caulaincourt, C, 60

Recorded in the Derbyshire Courier, 19th October 1918, as S. Ashmore and S. Ashman, the 1911 Census as Samuel Ashman, the 1901 Census as Samuel Ashbourne and in the 1891 Census as Samuel Ashman

1911 Census
A colliery rope lad
Boarding at the home of Charles Henry Dunham, a coal miner hewer, of 23, Portland Terrace, Langwith, Derbyshire

(Photograph from the Derbyshire Courier, 19th October 1918)

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